Today is Thursday, not my favourite day. It's the day of the week where my daily average of swearing at the divine ie "descending the candles" (see relevant post of Nov.5th) increases exponentially versus the average of the rest of the week. One reason, of course, is visiting George Jr at 3:00 pm and the chaos created in his neighbourhood because of the "farmer's market" aka "laiki" that I explained in the aforementionned post. The other reason actually preceeds my George Jr visit and lights the fuse for the "laiki" explosion. You see, Thursday's is supermarket day for me. In fact, I just returned from this experience. I know, that for a lot of people it's a pleasant experience bla, bla bla...Not for me mates. It's an unnatural experience and trying to find the stuff you want is like a stupid hide and seek game. Btw, the supermarket I go to, Mega on Vouliagmenis, is one of the best if not the best supermarket in Athens, big, wide aisles, spotless and brightly lit as the photos can attest. My detestation has nothing to do with the supermarket's infrastructure. And now, after I read the book "The Nudge" (book review post dated Oct. 30th) I now see the supermarket as a huge factory of nudging, with the choice architects working their butts off to force me, nudging is too soft a word in this case, to choose what they want rather than what I want. This will not pass. I am Spartacus! Hahaha
4 comments:
on-line shopping?
On-line shopping process is Grrrrh! and lonely. What I really want is to shoot a few supermarket choice architects!
why don't you try a smaller supermarket? I find big ones totally null. I end up buying more things that I need, and take huge amount of time.
I visit my local small supermarket 3 times a week, average duration of each visit 10 minutes, I end up carrying one to maximum three bags and get only necessities. Then once a month I go to a bigger supermarket, a typical sklavenitis, and buy the rest.
Mega no matter how good it is, it is not for people like you and me who find grocery shopping one of the worst chores ever.
Just an idea..
M y "problem", Zeta, is that my supermarket shopping list has a plethora of special and niche products and brands (which adds to the difficulty of finding them) that I cannot find in my neighborhood mini-markets eg: Bobby's cooked minced meat/chicken balls, cooked "fakes" (best in Athens), sushi, special olives, a wide range of bio/organic productsbles/vegeta, a wide selection of non Greek wines etc. Ergo I go to this particular supermarket. Unfortunately, Mega is for people like me!
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